Wow! What I have thought at a while and actually really would like to do is exactly what Mauritius Seeger is here showing us; As an exchange student /traveller from Europe I not only discovered time travel travelling down here, I also discovered space travel, which means that I can directly relate to this "spacelapse" film! However, for this assignment I would probably need to already have recorded my travel. If that would have been the case, my proposal for this assignment would have appeared quite similar to Mauritius' project description below.
Perhaps I will try this method out during my planned travel around the North Island in the mid--trimester break, but because of the hand-in date shortly after, I will keep my mind open for a better plan A. I am definitely going to try this out on my way back to Europe though; Wellington - Auckland - Australia - Thailand - Saudi Arabia - Germany and Denmark ; great!!
"Initially I attempted this as a prototype for a narrative VJ performance. I use a novel stop-motion technique which I call ‘spacelapse’. This type of photography uses images with continually changing camera viewpoints and produces exhilarating visual flights and breathtaking perspective shifts. Material for this has been shot in cities around the world and reflects my interest in travel, architecture and photography.
This video is constructed as a self reflective story with frequent visual references to the photographer. Shadows of me cast while shooting the VJ material are space-lapsed into animated silhouettes giving the sensation of being both stationary and moving. This is the story of a traveller: finding that which is constant in a continually changing environment."
-Mauritius Seeger
